I can push my cultivation progress to the end

“Grandfather, this person…”

Guo Shiwen slowly walked to the grand chair, a mere thirty feet from Li Hai, quietly sizing him up for a few moments before turning to Guo Huaijin and asking, “This is the Blood Grain this time?”

“That’s right.”

Guo Huaijin nodded slightly. “Good grandson, the time has come, hurry and nourish yourself, don’t delay your condition.”

“Okay.”

Guo Shiwen nodded.

Immediately, he turned and took a foot-long hollow copper tube from a wooden box held by a servant, and walked step by step towards Li Hai.

But Li Hai, who was tightly bound to the blood-wood stake, looked at the sharp copper tube in Guo Shiwen’s hand, getting closer and closer, without any fear, even grinning.

“Closer, closer, a little closer.”

He lowered his eyes and muttered, the corners of his mouth widening.

Step… Step… Step…

Guo Shiwen’s footsteps grew closer and closer.

He suddenly raised his head, looked directly into Guo Shiwen’s astonished eyes, and abruptly activated the system hidden deep within his soul.

The 《Tiger Claw Knife Fist》, which had been hanging in his skill bar for a long time, instantly leaped from the zero level to the sixth level… max level.

Thus, Li Hai’s personal interface changed from its original unremarkable state to—

Master Name: Li Hai

Level Rank: Orthodox Martial Arts → Energy Circulation, Bloodline Divine Power → Low Grade

Skills: 《Five Animal Qi Gong》, 《Tiger Claw Knife Fist》, 《Bloodthirsty Heart Burning》

Entry Characteristics: 【Soul Strengthening Level 1】, 【Finger Claw Level 1】, 【Berserk Level 1】

Strongest Shard: None

And when all kinds of data manifested on Li Hai’s real physical body.

His originally thin body, only five-foot-three, suddenly expanded like an inflating balloon. While his entire skeleton was frantically moving and stretching, he abruptly grew to six-foot-four, and his entire body was covered with strong, hard muscles.

Not only that, but the originally transparent and fragile nails at the ends of Li Hai’s ten fingers suddenly and strangely lengthened, transforming into grayish-white sharp claws resembling Sabretooth from the X-Men movies.

At the same time, the circles of hemp rope that tightly bound Li Hai were forcibly broken by his bulging, healthy muscles after he completed his on-the-spot upgrade, turning into a mess of hemp fibers on the ground.

As for Guo Shiwen, who was frightened silly on the spot by this sudden change, he regrettably lost all chance of escape.

He was grabbed by the neck by Li Hai, who had broken free, and lifted three feet off the ground like a little chick.

And Guo Huaijin, dozens of feet away, who suddenly sensed the explosive and violent change in Li Hai’s aura, also changed his face and pushed off the ground with his feet, rushing towards Li Hai’s location with layers of afterimages and fierce gusts of wind.

The next second, two people with the same martial arts and the same realm… collided head-on without reservation.

Roar!

Accompanied by a deafening air explosion and the roar of a tiger, Guo Huaijin seemed to have been hit hard by some kind of great force. His whole person staggered and flew back to his original position.

“How is this possible?!”

With a face full of shock, anger, and disbelief, Guo Huaijin, suppressing the surging blood in his body, stared at Li Hai, who had changed his appearance a dozen feet away, and roared in disbelief, “Why do you possess my old man’s unique skill? And you’ve practiced it so skillfully!”

“Hahahaha~”

Li Hai, using Guo Shiwen as a shield to vaguely cover his upper body, laughed loudly, “Guo old dog, why so much nonsense? You only need to know that the life and death of this little bastard is entirely in your hands at this moment.”

“Want to use Shiwen’s life to exchange for a way out for yourself?”

Guo Huaijin said without hesitation, “Okay! Agreed, you let him go, and I promise you can leave this place.”

“Old dog, you’re trying to fool a fool.”

Li Hai, hiding the head and neck behind the semi-conscious Guo Shiwen, grinned and sneered, “I dare say that as soon as this little bastard leaves my hands, definitely a dozen or even more bullets will greet my head, right?”

As he spoke, he imperceptibly glanced at the dozen or so armed guards standing in twos and threes beside and behind Guo Huaijin.

At this moment, these people had all raised their muskets and pointed them remotely at Li Hai.

And Li Hai could clearly feel that all the positions around him pointed at by these gun muzzles faintly conveyed a slight, almost imperceptible tingling sensation.

So-called not a feather can be added, no fly can land, others don't know me, but I alone know others.

This is the specific manifestation on his sturdy body of the ominous premonition ability brought about by a martial artist advancing to the 【Energy Circulation】 realm.

This ability can also be called martial artist’s intuition or martial arts mind’s eye.

It was also this ability that made Li Hai clearly know a fact.

That is… although his body is no longer afraid of ordinary mediocre swords and inferior blades, he is still unable to withstand the array shooting of gunpowder firearms.

If there were only two or three clustered gunmen, Li Hai was confident that he could quickly solve them by relying on dodging and sprinting.

But there were a full twelve or thirteen guns on the scene, scattered in various directions of this large courtyard.

This is simply unsolvable, he can only think of a way to retreat temporarily.

Moreover, Li Hai also faintly heard through his keen ears that from all directions outside this courtyard, there were rustling footsteps approaching this place quickly or slowly.

Obviously, these people making the footsteps must be Guo old dog’s subordinates.

And how many guns are hidden among these people is an unknown number.

Seeing that the scene was faintly about to fall into a stalemate, Li Hai’s face turned cold, and he immediately pinched three fingers of Guo Shiwen’s left palm and yanked hard.

“Ah!!!”

Accompanied by splashing blood and a shrill scream, the three fingers were cruelly torn off by Li Hai on the spot and casually thrown at his feet.

Under the severe pain of the ten fingers connected to the heart, Guo Shiwen, who was already nearly fainting, also woke up instantly, and sobbed and cried with tears and snot flowing: “Ah ah ah! Grandpa, save me! Save me!”

“Wa ya ya ya!!”

And Guo Huaijin, who was shocked to see this scene, hearing the wailing of his good grandson, was also angered on the spot, glaring with bloodshot tiger eyes and roaring remotely at Li Hai, “Little beast! I won’t let you die so easily!”

“You’re still so arrogant when it’s come to this?”

Li Hai was very surprised, “Guo old dog, don’t you know who has the dominant power now, huh?”

As he spoke, he unhesitatingly reached out and grabbed the remaining two fingers of Guo Shiwen’s left palm, and yanked hard again.

“Ah ah ah!!”

After a piercing scream, Guo Shiwen actually fainted from the pain.

“Beast ah! Beast!”

Guo Huaijin roared to the sky, and then said with a ferocious face, “What… what exactly do you want?!”

“I have two requests.”

Li Hai sneered coldly, “First, have all your dog legs smash the guns in their hands, and second, have you personally lead the way and send me out of this place.”